Best Popcorn Flick/Best Comedy

Hey peoples, take down your God damn Christmas tree because we're here to announce two more award winners!

Best Popcorn Flick


Best popcorn flick, or the best movie to see in the theater this year, is an important award, especially to the Box Office (who may or may not be paying for us to include this category). It's kind of a hindsight award, mocking those who will never get the experience we did seeing it upon release, though I suppose if you have a big TV and surround sound you'd get most of the experience. Plus you don't gotta wear pants.


Anyways, here are our nominees for Best Popcorn Flick of 2010!


Iron Man 2
Inception
Red (2010)
The Expendables
Resident Evil: Afterlife


And the Winner is...

Iron Man 2
This was a close call, but the average film fan in me pushed Iron Man 2 just ahead of Inception, which was mostly carried by Hans Zimmer's score and like I've said, gets too wrapped up in its own concept. Ultimately, Favreau manages to overcome the shadow of the first film and keep it fresh. Is it a better movie than Inception? No, but if I had to go to see one movie in the theater right now, I'd have to pick RDJ and company for Iron Man 2 (btw, it was also the only movie I saw twice in theaters this year).


Best Comedy


Comedy movies are meant to be funny. That might sound a bit redundant, but a lot of the "comedy" films released in 2010 did not meet that simple criterion (that list is probably longer than our nominees).


The films nominated in this category succeeded in one simple think- being memorable for being funny.

Get Him to the Greek

Hot Tub Time Machine
Jackass 3D
The Other Guys

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

And the Winner is...

Get Him to the Greek
Jackass 3D was good, but we've seen it twice before. Hot Tub Time Machine was funny, but the dumb factor was a bit over the top. Get Him to the Greek was a fresh comedy with a hilarious cast (Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, two hilarious actors, were out-shined by an amazing performance by P. Diddy) and a ridiculous but completely plausible plot. The antics and random funny situations the duo of Hill and Brand get into are enough to push this movie into first place for Best Comedy... you don't even have to smoke a Jeffery to see that!

Most Disappointing Film/Best Film to Watch Under the Influence Awards!

Happy Friday! We've got our first batch of awards to unleash, so hit the bathroom, turn on the TiVo and lock the cat in the closet because the Kamo and Kochems Film Blog Awards have officially begun!

Most Disappointing Film

I wanted to start the welcome to 2011 right by pointing out, in true Festivus fashion, the biggest disappointments of 2010. This might have been by far the toughest category for me to judge since, well, there was a ton of shit served up to us last year. Really, my nominee's for this category are about 18 movies- I almost asked Mike to let me extend the nominee's like to ten just so I could vent about all of this garbage.

So here you are, people- a depressed person's uplifting moment.. the nominees for the Most Disappointing Film of 2010!

Dinner for Schmucks
Kick-Ass
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

And the Winner is...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

It's truly baffling that a story that had been so well rounded twenty-five years ago could fall so far under the digital age. Yeah, the effects are outstanding but that doesn't make a movie good. There were some real contenders here, but this one stands as a major black mark on the 21st century and its plethora of awful horror remakes.


Best Movie to Watch Under the Influence

Drugs, booze or "other", these movies are made all the better while under the influence. Maybe they're funnier or just plain awesome, see if your favorites make this list.

(NOTE: We are not condoning anything illegal to be done during the viewing of these films, nor are we implying that we have done as such, this is mere speculation and firsthand experience... I mean, secondhand experience)

Due Date
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Hot Tub Time Machine
Machete

And the Winner is...
Machete

Alice in Wonderland would have been awesome (of course) to watch under the influence and Hot Tub Time Machine would be hilarious, but there was something about watching Machete with a case of beer and a bottle of Wild Turkey that brought it over the top (like it wasn't over the top to begin with, right?). Heads getting chopped off, nudity, a mans entrails being used as a rope, Danny Trejo being a complete badass... amazing.